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    When the man called Taxian-Jun arrives, years later, it’s the coming of a storm. 

    He sweeps into a dinner appointment between Chu Wanning and a client, clad in black, a smirk tugging at his mouth. Over the spark of irritation, Chu Wanning can’t help but admire his lean frame, the way his hair, cut rebelliously short, falls over smoldering, dark eyes. The way he towers over him, even when Chu Wanning rises to full height. 

    Chu Wanning’s heart races as Taxian-Jun leans in close, ignoring the shouts and gasps around them.

    “Sakaki of Ran,” he purrs in their native tongue. “You’re mine.”

    Chu Wanning lifts his chin. “I don’t know you.”

    “You will,” Taxian-Jun says, and leaves.


    In which Chu Wanning is a courtesan serving Chinese merchants in Nagasaki, Japan, and Taxian-Jun decides to make him his.

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    As much as Xie Lian’s heart wants to pound an unsteady beat, he forces it to calm. Still waters across which he can watch his life float by—and not only his life.

    “You’re alright,” Hua Cheng murmurs, and Xie Lian’s eyes flutter open to catch his smile as the last few seconds tick by.

    “Neural handshake: initiated.”

    His breath stills in his lungs, plunged beneath that smooth surface into the murk and grit of his past.

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    It was hard, at first, to pinpoint just what about the bucolic lifestyle Xie Lian leads was so appealing to Hua Cheng. It’s picturesque, certainly, with cozy hutches and small terraces to yield the crops.

    Sweet air, vivid colour, cold water.

    Like an idiot, he’d thought it was the pull of the farm rather than the farmer.

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    21 Nov 2024

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    Xie Lian likes that staring at Hua Cheng long enough gets his heart racing. He likes that the quirk of Hua Cheng's mouth when he's biting back a smile is familiar enough that he could trace it in his sleep; likes that he's allowed to look whenever he wants with no consequence other than Hua Cheng's warm, lighthearted teasing.

    He likes looking. There are so many things about Hua Cheng worthy of Xie Lian's admiration, but sometimes–he squeezes the wood plank in his hands hard enough to splinter it–sometimes, he wants to touch.

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    23 Oct 2024

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    Xie Lian, prompted by some well-meaning friends, decides to try a one-night stand to prove he knows how to have fun. All Hua Cheng hopes for is a phone number. So when Xie Lian says, essentially, 'your place or mine?' Hua Cheng promptly loses what little is left of his mind.

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    21 Oct 2024